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In South Africa, 44% of urban mobile phone users used mobile banking services at the end of 2010, compared to 27% in 2009.

Antonio Belli has been appointed as director of sales and marketing at GlobeNet, the wholesale submarine capacity provider and subsidiary of Oi. Belli has worked at an executive level in telecommunications for over 20 years. He previously worked as director of sales and marketing for Latin America and the Caribbean for Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks. This position gave Belli the experience in the fibre-optic cable industry and in the Latin American market required for his new role. Belli has also worked under other global initiatives including business development, sales and marketing within the US and Brazil.

The global mobile phone market grew 17.9% in the last quarter of 2010, driven by the increasing use of smartphones.

Jan-Willem Scheerder is VP of sales for KPN International, having worked in various roles for KPN over 10 years.

Offering wholesale, enterprise, network infrastructure and consumer services, Kavit Majithia examines AT&T’s business strategy as the company attempts to setthe benchmark for innovation.

China’s telecoms industry has undergone radical changes in the last decade, offering new and vast opportunities for both Chinese and foreign carriers. Alex Hawkes investigates.

In recent years, the telecoms sector has shown an increased interest in the adoption of solar technology to generate power for cellular base stations.

The wave of protests that has swept across the Middle East and north Africa has continued to cause disruption to the internet.

In a world where businesses are constantly charged with finding ways to make everything smaller and more accessible, the lofty telecoms cell towers of steel that provide the bare infrastructure remain as prevalent as ever.

Angela Partington talks to Will Hughs, president and CEO of Telstra International, Americas, about the unpredictable loads that social networking places on the networks, and asks what service providers should be doing to tackle the problem.